The Queen of Mean Author:Piers Randsdell Leona Helmsley's domain includes some of the most precious commercial property on earth-with the super luxurious Helmsley Palace Hotel in midtown Manhattan as its glittering crown. Through determination and sheer force of will she transformed herself from a penniless nobody in Brooklyn to the Queen of the Palace-and wife of one of America's weal... more »thiest men. But her relentless climb to the top is studded with almost unbelievavle incidents of greed, insensitivity, pettiness, and cruely. Now, meticulously reported by the one newsman who knows it best, here is Leona Helmsly's story in all its fascinating, shocking detail.« less